Dissonance: Auditory Aesthetics in Ancient Greece

by Sean Alexander Gurd

In the four centuries leading up to the death of Euripides, Greek singers, poets, and theorists delved deeply into auditory experience. They charted its capacity to develop topologies distinct from those of the other senses; contemplated its use as a communicator of information; calculated its power to express and cause extreme emotion. They made sound too, artfully and self-consciously creating songs and poems that reveled in sonorousness. Dissonance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823269655
• ISBN13: 9780823269655
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"